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Allegories of the purge : how literature responded to the postwar trials of writers and intellectuals in France /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watts, Philip, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [1998]
Subjects:
French literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 > Collaborationists > France.
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945.
Trials (Treason) > France > History > 20th century.
Trials (Treason) in literature.
Intellectuals > Political activity > France.
Table of Contents:
  • Literature on trial
  • Sartre: sentencing literature
  • Blanchot: rebuttals
  • Eluard: purging poetry
  • Céline: style wars
  • Céline: denying history
  • Conclusion: the spirit of the trial.